The City of San Diego is partnering with GE to upgrade streetlights to reduce energy costs by 60 percent as well as transform them into a connected digital network that can optimize parking and traffic, enhance public safety and track air quality.
The deployment of 3,200...

On February 9, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer announced that the City of San Diego is the world’s first city to partner with GE Lighting on a pilot of its Intelligent Cities platform—a software-defined lighting technology that will help San Diego solve some of the city’s...

Balboa Park Centennial "Light the Park" Project
Cleantech San Diego is proud to be one of the core collaborators who worked closely with the City of San Diego and SDG&E in scoping out a technically feasible and cost effective LED lighting upgrade project, which is one...

The County of San Diego street light retrofit project is steadily moving forward. The County has completed a request for bid and will procure the luminaires and adaptive controls, and then embark on an installation process to accommodate their pre-determined deployment goals, focusing first on higher...

Progress continues toward retrofitting all of San Diego County's street lights. The City of Oceanside has placed their order for their 7,700 Phase 1 LED street light luminaires, which are on track to be delivered by the end of August, with installation slated to begin...

The San Diego Climate Collaborative, CleanTECH San Diego, and Qualcomm co-sponsored a Next Generation Street Light Symposium hosted by Supervisor Dave Roberts' Sustainability Team at the County of San Diego. Ed Ebrahimian, Director of the City of Los Angeles's Bureau of Street Lighting (LA BSL)...

On April 26, the documentary project One Day in San Diego (part of One Day on Earth) challenged filmmakers across San Diego to document stories and investigate 10 questions for the future of San Diego as part of a city-wide, participatory media-creation event. Filmmaker Lisa...

CleanTECH San Diego's Marty Turock represented both the City of San Diego and the San Diego Region Street Light Working Group in a recent presentation at the California Street Light Association (CAL-SLA) Annual Southern California Meeting, which was held at their LA County offices. Turock presented an overview...